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Things I love: 1. Medicaid 2. States 3. Salad. PhD in Health Policy. Former: @cmsgov @hhsgov @amprog @HarvardGSAS Current: @ncdhhs and @dukeU
Feb 18, 2019 11 tweets 3 min read
Every President's Day for the last 19 years I spend the day learning about a different President, in order. This year, America's sexiest president: Rutherford B. Hayes. Rutherford was raised by a single mother and his wife was the first First Lady to go to college. She was a feminist and abolitionist and the luckiest woman in the world.
Dec 15, 2018 10 tweets 2 min read
It’s more than pre-existing conditions. It’s kids staying on their parents plans, it’s drugs for seniors, it’s better care in hospitals, it’s Medicaid for 10+ million people. That’s all unrelated to the mandate. It’s free flu shots. It’s free birth control. It’s menu labeling. It’s payments for low-income seniors. It’s student loan payments. It’s health care centers in rural areas.
Jul 30, 2018 37 tweets 12 min read
Happy 53rd birthday Medicaid!!! 🎉🎊🎈🎁🎂 Two days after Congress passed the Medicare Act of 1965, LBJ signed the Social Security Amendments at the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri.

I actually don’t know at what time.
Jul 12, 2018 36 tweets 7 min read
The number of inaccuracies in this report is enough to break twitter if I were to tweet all of them. thefga.org/wp-content/upl… Alright fine. Here we go folks. Put on your seat belts.
1. The entire report is centered on the premise that if someone is not making any money they have no good reason, don't want to get a job, and are dependent on Medicaid- instead of sick, parents, in school, or caregiving.